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Comment by ggm

6 days ago

The positive schpiels say it gets higher utilisaton ("burn") of the fuel inside the micropellets, so it may be HEU, but there's more taken out so less made overall.

I'm unsure where the H in HEU comes from, probably nasty sources, and probably nasty radiochemistry.

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